A recent New York Times article highlighted the growing number of "dead malls" across the United States, and featured many in Maryland, including the Owings Mills Mall and Landover Mall. These once vibrant retail spaces offer unique opportunities for communities to retrofit their suburban shopping areas and insert more housing (including low and moderate income); create centrally located civic spaces such as churches, post offices, and fitness centers; and replace seas of asphalt with green spaces, including infrastructure that will help prevent stormwater runoff pollution. Many communities without a true "center" can re-purpose these places to create a new Main Street. Green Teams can be the catalyst for creating a vision to transform these voids and bring them back to a more sustainable use. Check out this slideshow of "dead malls" in Maryland. And for more ideas about resurrecting dead malls and other "greyfields", order the book Retrofitting Suburbia at your local bookseller.